Quotes About Workplace

After all, just because you're at the office is no reason to stop thinking.

As journalist Nancy Gibbs once quipped in Time magazine, "IQ gets you hired, but EQ gets you promoted.

Gloria Steinem: "There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all the other occupations should be open to everyone.

En las pequeñas empresas -o, como se las suele llamar, las *empresas familiares* o *empresas de papá y mamá*- el nepotismo es muy habitual, por lo que puede entrar en conflicto con los principios de igualdad de oportunidad y granjearse el rencor de la comunidad en que se encuentra.

We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.

It's a nightmare if you're working with someone you don't get on with, especially if you have to be in love with them.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

If you want to become invaluable in a workplace—in any community—just do the useful things no one else is doing. Arrive earlier and leave later than your compatriots (but do not deny yourself your life).1 Organize what you can see is dangerously disorganized. Work, when you are working, instead of looking like you are working.

We'll need you to unlock your desk, sir." "Sorry," Dreyfuss said. "Not until I've read this form." "You haven't…looked at it." "And I'm a very slow reader. Sometimes I wonder if I'm dyslexic.

Estos burócratas quincenales, pensé, no piensan más que en cerrar expedientes.

only a lunatic would fail to distinguish between himself and his representative self. This banal distinction may be most obvious in the workplace, where invariably one must avail oneself of an even-tempered, abnormally industrious dummy stand-in who, precisely because it is a dummy, makes life easier for all the others, who are themselves present, which is to say, represented, by dummies of their own.

Mr. S was finally retiring this year, which was a good thing, because he appeared to have run out of shits to give sometime in the previous century.

And I was just there, less than an hour ago, debugging subroutines in my cubicle, when a motherfucking Earth Defense Alliance shuttle suddenly shows up and lands right outside my office building! I figured I must be losing it. Now I'm not sure what to think.

The half dozen GSS employees inside all avoided making direct eye contact. I could guess what all of them were thinking: Meet the new boss, weird as the old boss.

Respect also means never asking someone to do something you wouldn't do or haven't done yourself. As an associate, I always felt a bit better knowing that if I was in the office at midnight, my EM was too.

There are probably industries where gender is more of an issue, but our industry is not one where I think that's relevant.

Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.

For the rich and powerful, pregnancy might not be an obstacle - it might even help one's career. But for the rest of us, it remains a hindrance.

Driving a forklift is kind of like riding a bicycle. You've either got forklift skills or you don't, and I can remove somebody's molars with a forklift.

I worked at Ikea as a customer service rep for two years and loved it.

Women in finance bore the brunt of layoffs more than their male counterparts during the Great Recession in 2008 and were also more likely to have been in back office jobs that were replaced by computers.

There's a lot of automation that can happen that isn't a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing behavior.

I suddenly became an unprofessional tantrum queen but people tend to forget that we associate these terms only with actresses. So many times, actors report late to the sets or don't even show up. But most women will tell you how we don't even have the luxury to be five minutes late.

The notion people have about me is that I am always angry and irritated. Also, I report late to work and I am not serious about my job. But if all these things were true about me, people wouldn't be working with me.